Dwarf Fortress’ titular dwarves have learned how to lie. In the game’s first major update since the middle of last year, your favourite bearded boys will be able to tell fibs to get themselves out of tricky situations. Dwarf Fortress' is so culturally significant that its source code is destined for the MoMA. Update 0.44.01 of the enormously ambitious colony management sim was released in late November, and focuses on the introduction of a world map. That gives you the option to send your dwarves out into the world on quests to retrieve special artifacts. That’s an option available not only in Fortress mode, but also in the game’s RPG system, Adventure mode. from https://www.pcgamesn.com/dwarf-fortress/dwarf-fortress-lie-cover-identity
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Free Steam keys: Enter to win one of 50 codes for tactical military shooter Squad that's an order!12/5/2017 If you're going to play Squad you're going to want to have a microphone. That's your first tip. If you want the rest of them you'll want to get playing this 50v50 online tactical shooter for yourself and acquire them from its huge community of dedicated players. If you don't want to jump in with the full £29.99 asking price, however, the good news is that we're giving away 50 Steam keys below. Before we get on to how you can win one of those Steam keys let us further explain to you the appeal of Squad. It's a game that is all about cooperation. If you cannot work with a team then you're not going to do very well here. from https://www.pcgamesn.com/squad/free-steam-keys-squad-giveaway Another week has landed, meaning those of you with a little less IP to burn on League of Legends get another selection of free champions to try out. As always, that means there's a good selection of misfits for you to try out before you commit. As for who you should be playing, check our choices for the best League of Legends champions for beginners. Free Champions - SupportKeep your pals in the fight with these champs. Taric - 1350 IP/585 RPFree Champions - MagesBecome the wizard you always knew you were inside and nuke enemies with powerful spells. from https://www.pcgamesn.com/league-of-legends/league-of-legends-free-champion-rotation The Overwatch development team has been extremely open about what’s happening with the game going forward and what Overwatch updates will happen in the future. As a partner to keeping you updated on what's happening in the game right now, we’ve gathered everything Blizzard have said about what happens next. While we’re at it, here’s all the info we have on new Overwatch heroes. We’ve split this into sections based on rough estimates of when different features are planned for release. In cases where we don’t know, we’ve estimated based on perceived workload, but make it very clear that it is our estimation, not Blizzard’s. On that note, at least for the forseeable future, it looks like we can expect one major patch at the end of each month, though that varies depending on big factors like BlizzCon and holidays. from https://www.pcgamesn.com/overwatch/overwatch-update-whats-next As predicted, Civilization developers Firaxis have begun their drip feed of the new cultures coming to Civ VI in its recently announced expansion, Rise and Fall. First up: meet Queen Seondeok of Korea. She ruled Silla, one of Korea's three kingdoms, from the year 632 to 647. Here's everything we know about Civ 6: Rise and Fall so far. The Korean unique ability is Three Kingdoms, which causes mines to produce bonus Science, and farms to yield bonus Food, if built adjacent to a Seowon. That's Korea's unique district, and it replaces the Campus. Seowons must be built on hills and grants a huge initial yield of +6 Science, but this is reduced for every district you build adjacent to the Seowon. from https://www.pcgamesn.com/civilization-vi/civ-6-korea-rise-and-fall-leader Update, December 5: Epic Games have settled one of the copyright lawsuits against a prolific Fortnite cheater. They have also responded to the case of the 14-year-old cheater. Fortnite have settled on a copyright lawsuit against Charles 'Joreallean' Vraspir. The company took Vraspir to court accusing him of a breaching the game's End User License Agreement by injecting unauthorized code into the game, allowing him to cheat. Vraspir is also suspected of having helped develop some Fortnite cheats. Ten million people have played Fortnite Battle Royale. The two parties did go to court, but quickly settled on an agreement, signed by Vraspir, that requires him to refrain from ever carrying out copyright infringement again, to destroy all cheats, and not to cheat ever again. If Vraspir is found in breach of the agreement, he will have to pay $5,000. from https://www.pcgamesn.com/fortnite/fortnite-battle-royale-lawsuits Following the lead of Team Ninja with samurai slasher Nioh, Bandai Namco are having a pop at developing their own Souls-like with Code Vein. It is to be a post-apocalyptic RPG in which anime vampires roam the land in search of blood. While the studio initially played up to the Dark Souls comparison (complete with a ‘Prepare to Dine’ tagline), this action-RPG shares more of its DNA with FromSoftware’s own gothic Souls-like Bloodborne, rather than the slow-paced actual Souls series. All clear? Good. Want another Souls-like to battle through? The Surge is certainly worth a go as our review attests. Code Vein borrows liberally from the latter series’ playbook, however, with ‘Mistles’ replacing bonfires, an identical stamina system, and the total loss of all XP when you die. But playing Code Vein like a Souls outing will get you nowhere. There are no shields to hide behind, for one thing, so dodging or parrying enemy attacks is your only way to survive. from https://www.pcgamesn.com/code-vein/code-vein-bloodborne-pc Picking the best gaming mouse is the only way to ensure that your rapid-fast reactions are registered in-game before your enemies. With a variety of weights, sizes, grip-styles, and button layouts finding the perfect fit can be a little tedious at times. Well, fear not! We have you covered with our top picks for gaming mice. Check out the best gaming mouse prices at Amazon US and Amazon UK. But do you want a laser mouse, a Razer mouse, a Logitech mouse, a wireless mouse or just a simple, cheap gaming mouse? The choices are manifold, but nailing down exactly what you want can be tricky. As ever it’s a delicate balancing act. from https://www.pcgamesn.com/best-gaming-mouse Intel’s Coffee Lake finally brought six-cores to the mainstream processor market, but if you wanted to make use of them, you’d need to purchase the very latest Z370 chipset. Any old 100- or 200-series motherboard just won’t do - but with a little tinkering behind the scenes, some adventurous modders have rendered Intel’s backwards compatibility block obsolete. Want to fiddle with zeroes and ones? Here’s the best gaming keyboards to help you code like a hero Unfortunately, getting Coffee Lake up and running on older boards is not as easy as a simple motherboard BIOS transfusion. The modders discovered that you need to perform some Intel Management Engine and microcode trickery to get the chip up and running - but it works. from https://www.pcgamesn.com/intel-coffee-lake-z170-compatibility-hack I bounced hard off Fallout 4’s settlement system when the game first came out. I struggled to get my head around it and pretty much everything I made turned out garbage. This is why I initially thought it was a waste of time and an unnecessary addition to the series. I couldn’t have been more wrong. When I saw some of the settlements other, more architecturally-minded people were creating, my opinion started to change. They inspired me to give settlement creation another go, and it has since become one of my favourite things to do in Fallout 4. Want to customise the post-apocalyptic RPG yourself? Check out the best Fallout 4 mods. The creator whose work I admire most is EvilViking13, who prefers to go by his screen name and is actually quite nice. His builds consistently demonstrate a remarkable attention to detail and push the system to its limits. I reached out to him so he could talk through some of his spectacular settlements, all in hope of getting a better sense of the scale of his work and what, in turn, inspires him. from https://www.pcgamesn.com/fallout-4/fallout-4-settlements-evilviking13 |
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